Data disappears from hard drive

I have had this 160 gig Lacie porsche drive for over 2 years, I have had data just vanish about a year ago. I sent drive back and they repaired? I thought. But it has just happened again. Has anyone experienced anything simular? I am running a G3 mac, using os-x if that helps. Is there any way to retrieve lost data without spending a fortune?

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it is hard to say exactly what's wrong with but I would say that is probably that the usb (if it's a usb disk) isn't working on the drive side. It has power and disk are probably working if you can hear the sound of them. But since the usb port which connects it to PC isn't working it doesn't show up in device manager.

Try to remove the internal drive from enclosure and connect it directly to the PC.Another imporant thing - does it make any new sounds similar to any from this page: http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php ?

hey...its actually a simple problem.. your hard disk's power cable is loose.. open your cabinet... just press the HDD's powercable in a little bit..thats all.. this should probably fix the problem.. Well if doesn't work there's an excellent tool called Recoversoft Data Rescue PC google for it and buy it.. it will surely recover your data!Good luck!Regards,Sai.

keeping hard drives running will cost more on electric and heat generated from drives as I've found out on of my 160gig sata drives burnt out because I was using pc 24hrs aday and night if I had put a cooler on the bottom it would have lasted 5 years but I only lasted 8 months you can give your hard drives 2 twice or even 5 times life span if kept at room temperature
listen to you own advice it's your data and hard drives do what you wish I'm only her for advive you can tak itor leave it